Jessica Delisi

• The Phonetics of Nasal‐fricative Sequences in Latin

  Open Access•Jessica Delisi•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Philological…•2021

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  Inscriptional material and descriptions by grammarians from the classical period indicate that vowels were regularly lengthened before ‐ns‐ and ‐nf‐ sequences in Latin, e.g., cōnsul and īnfēlīx . Additionally, nasals were often lost in this environment. The nasal deletion was driven by articulatory mechanisms, namely the difficulty of articulating a nasal directly before an anterior fricative. Diverting air to the nasal cavity reduces oral air pr…

• Armenian prosody in typology and diachrony

  Jessica Delisi•ARTICLE•Language Dynamics and Change•2018

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  This paper examines the relationship between typology and historical linguistics through a case study from the history of Armenian, where two different stress systems are found in the modern language. The first is a penult system with no associated secondary stress ([... σ́σ] ω ). The other, the so-called hammock pattern, has primary stress on the final syllable and secondary stress on the initial syllable of the prosodic word ([σ̀ ... σ́] ω ). A…

• Feature metathesis and the change of PIE *du̯ to Classical Armenian - rk

  Jessica Delisi•ARTICLE•Diachronica•2013

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  This paper reexamines the correspondence of Classical Armenian - rk - with Proto-Indo-European *du̯ and attempts to explain the change in a phonologically plausible way without recourse to illicit clusters or ad hoc rules not otherwise operational in the language. Instead, the change of *du̯ to - rk - is analyzed in Optimality framework as an instantiation of the Armenian sonority-based metathesis. Instead of the expected segment metathesis, howe…

• Feature metathesis and the change of PIE *du̯ to Classical Armenian - rk

  Jessica Delisi•ARTICLE•Diachronica•2013

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  This paper reexamines the correspondence of Classical Armenian - rk - with Proto-Indo-European *du̯ and attempts to explain the change in a phonologically plausible way without recourse to illicit clusters or ad hoc rules not otherwise operational in the language. Instead, the change of *du̯ to - rk - is analyzed in Optimality framework as an instantiation of the Armenian sonority-based metathesis. Instead of the expected segment metathesis, howe…

• Armenian prosody in typology and diachrony

  Jessica Delisi•ARTICLE•Language Dynamics and Change•2018

  Añadir item

  This paper examines the relationship between typology and historical linguistics through a case study from the history of Armenian, where two different stress systems are found in the modern language. The first is a penult system with no associated secondary stress ([... σ́σ] ω ). The other, the so-called hammock pattern, has primary stress on the final syllable and secondary stress on the initial syllable of the prosodic word ([σ̀ ... σ́] ω ). A…

• The Phonetics of Nasal‐fricative Sequences in Latin

  Open Access•Jessica Delisi•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Philological…•2021

  Añadir item

  Inscriptional material and descriptions by grammarians from the classical period indicate that vowels were regularly lengthened before ‐ns‐ and ‐nf‐ sequences in Latin, e.g., cōnsul and īnfēlīx . Additionally, nasals were often lost in this environment. The nasal deletion was driven by articulatory mechanisms, namely the difficulty of articulating a nasal directly before an anterior fricative. Diverting air to the nasal cavity reduces oral air pr…

Linguistics (3 obras) · Linguistics and language evolution (3 obras) · Philosophy (3 obras) · Armenian (2 obras) · Computer Science (2 obras) · Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (2 obras) · History (2 obras) · Physics (2 obras) · Acoustics (1 obra) · Archaeology (1 obra)